HB2206
Child Care Subsidy Program; expanding Program to serve more families.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Child Care Subsidy Program; emergency.
Provides that regulations governing the Child Care Subsidy Program (the Program) shall be amended to provide that (i) a family shall be eligible for assistance through the Program if the family's income does not exceed 85 percent of the state median income, the family includes at least one child who ... (More) is five years of age or younger and has not yet started kindergarten, and the family meets all other income and eligibility requirements of the Program and (ii) job search activities shall be considered eligible activities for the purposes of the Program. The bill provides that a family determined to be eligible for assistance through the Program shall be eligible to receive assistance for a period of 12 months or until the family's household income exceeds 85 percent of the state median income, whichever occurs sooner. The Department of Social Services shall administer the program, as amended by the bill, in cooperation with the Department of Education. The bill contains an emergency clause and provides that the provisions of the bill shall be applicable to applications for assistance through the Program received prior to August 1, 2021. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/13/2021 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21102769D
- 01/13/2021 - House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/28/2021 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/28/2021 - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2021 - House: Committee substitute printed 21103864D-H1
- 01/29/2021 - House: Read first time
- 02/01/2021 - House: Read second time
- 02/01/2021 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 21103864D-H1
- 02/01/2021 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2206H1
- 02/02/2021 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/2021 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/2021 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2206H1)
- 02/03/2021 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/2021 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/05/2021 - Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2021 - Senate: Rereferred from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/11/2021 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/16/2021 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/2021 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/2021 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200307D-S1
- 02/17/2021 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/2021 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/17/2021 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21200307D-S1
- 02/17/2021 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2206S1
- 02/17/2021 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2021 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/19/2021 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200307D-S1 (92-Y 7-N)
- 02/19/2021 - House: VOTE: Adoption (92-Y 7-N)
- 02/24/2021 - House: Enrolled
- 02/24/2021 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2206ER)
- 02/24/2021 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2206ER)
- 02/24/2021 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/25/2021 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/26/2021 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
- 02/26/2021 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/18/2021 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 171 (effective 3/18/21)
- 03/18/2021 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0171)
